Murchison Promontory
Murchison Promontory, a cape in the northern Canadian arctic, is the northernmost mainland point of the Americas and of Canada. Located from the North Pole, it is farther north than Point Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost point of all U.S. territory.Geography
Murchison Promontory extends along the northern edge of the Boothia Peninsula, parallel to and along the coast of the Bellot Strait, which separates it from Somerset Island. Situated in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, its northernmost point, Zenith Point, is located at. The nearest community is Taloyoak, approximately to the south.History
The area was first explored in April 1852 by Canadian Captain William Kennedy and French explorer Joseph René Bellot while searching for traces of John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. The strait was then named after Bellot.
Irish born Francis Leopold McClintock also wintered in the area with his ship Fox in the winter of 1858 - 1859 in his search for the Franklin expedition.
In 1937 Scot E. J. "Scotty" Gall passed the promontory on his ship "Aklavik" on the first crossing of the Bellot Strait travelling from the western shore to the eastern for the Hudson's Bay Company.
